House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries formally nominated California Reps. Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell to serve on the House Intelligence Committee, even as House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has pledged to block their reappointments to the panel.
Jeffries, the House minority leader, sent a letter to McCarthy on Saturday officially recommending the two California Democrats for spots on the committee, citing their"decades of distinguished leadership providing oversight" of the intelligence community and careers as prosecutors before serving in Congress.
But he noted McCarthy's intent to deny the seats to Schiff and Swalwell and said such a step would"break with the longstanding House tradition of deference to the minority party Intelligence Committee recommendations." "The denial of seats to duly elected members of the House Democratic Caucus runs counter to the serious and sober mission of the Intelligence Committee," Jeffries wrote in the letter, obtained by CBS News.
After the Democratic-led House voted during the last Congress to strip GOP Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Paul Gosar of Arizona of their committee assignments, Republicans have vowed to do the same to Democrats, targeting Schiff, Swalwell and Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota.
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